Dell CX4 manual Installing and Configuring the Shared Storage System, Access Control

Installing and Configuring the Shared Storage System

See "Cluster Hardware Requirements" on page 8 for a list of supported Dell/EMC storage systems.

To install and configure the Dell/EMC storage system in your cluster:

1Update the core software on your storage system and enable Access Control (optional) and install any additional software options, including EMC SnapView™, EMC MirrorView™, and SAN Copy™. See your EMC Navisphere® documentation for more information.

2Install the EMC Navisphere Agent and EMC PowerPath software on each cluster node.

See your Navisphere documentation for more information.

3Update the storage system configuration settings using Navisphere Manager.

See "Enabling Access Control and Creating Storage Groups Using Navisphere" on page 49 for more information.

The following subsections provide an overview of the storage management software and procedures for connecting the host systems to the storage systems.

Access Control

Fibre Channel topologies allow multiple clusters and stand-alone systems to share a single storage system. However, if you cannot control access to the shared storage system, you can corrupt your data. To share your Dell/EMC storage system with multiple heterogeneous host systems and restrict access to the shared storage system, you need to enable Access Control.

Enabling Access Control prevents all host systems from accessing any data on the storage system until they are given explicit access to a LUN through a storage group. By enabling Access Control, you can prevent the host systems from taking ownership of all LUNs on the storage system and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information.

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